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"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case."
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"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."
Fun
"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."
Public
"In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them."
People
"Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question."
Writing
"All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie."
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"As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape."
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"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
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"Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original."
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"The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things."
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